The main aim of the I See Me is to provide the highest quality, most personalized children’s books. I See Me has started its business in May, 2000, after a year of active product development. Their main goal was to write an educational book that would teach young children how to recognize letters and spell [...]
Vegetables are an important food group and a key part of the food pyramid, so ideally, your kids would eat some each day.
One of the first questions parents have about vegetables is how many do their kids actually need to eat each day. Following the food pyramid, some general recommendations include that:
2 to 3 years [...]
Some eating habits that will help your child lose weight include:
Healthy Meals. your child should eat three well-balanced meals of average size each day. Serve fewer fatty foods. It is best to prepare foods that are baked, broiled or steamed, rather than fried. In addition to a small serving of lean meat, provide large servings [...]
Obesity is easier to prevent than to treat, and prevention focuses in large measure on parent education. In infancy, parent education should center on promotion of breastfeeding, recognition of signals of satiety, and delayed introduction of solid foods. In early childhood, education should include proper nutrition, selection of low-fat snacks, good exercise/activity habits, and monitoring [...]
Obesity treatment programs for children and adolescents rarely have weight loss as a goal. Rather, the aim is to slow or halt weight gain so the child will grow into his or her body weight over a period of months to years. Dietz (1983) estimates that for every 20 percent excess of ideal body weight, [...]
The prevalence of obesity among children aged 6 to 11 more than doubled in the past 20 years, going from 6.5% in 1980 to 17.0% in 2007. The rate among adolescents aged 12 to 19 more than tripled, increasing from 5% to 17.6%.
Obesity is the result of caloric imbalance (too few calories expended for the [...]
Getting your kids to try a new food can be such a major event sometimes. Of course as adults, moms and dads get frustrated. Why should trying one little bite of foreign food become such an ordeal?
Dr. Lucy J. Cooke of University College London may just have the answer to that question. The doctor and [...]
How much calcium do your kids need?
It depends on how old they are, but the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children who are:
1-3 years old get 500mg per day (about 2 servings of milk)
4-8 years old get 800mg per day (about 3 servings of milk)
9-18 years old get 1300mg per day (about 4 servings [...]